UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

What makes the brain fall asleep? For nearly a century, scientists have looked to structures deep within the brain for the ...

Brain cells in the cortex can actively push the brain toward sleep, challenging a century-old view of how sleep begins.

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

Take a risk or play it safe? Your gas tank might be low, but there's just enough to make it to work on time. Do you stop and ...

We carry a map of our bodies around in our brains. It's not a literal picture, but an organized pattern of brain activity. So ...

Researchers have developed a new approach for describing the shape of the cerebral cortex, and provide evidence that cortices across mammalian species resemble a universal, fractal pattern.

Adolescents who spend more time playing video games tend to show differences in the outer layer of their brains, such as a ...

Brain recordings reveal that people blend competing goals rather than simply switching from one choice to another.